Improvement in reeling-machinery



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Letters .Patent No. 84,424, dated November 24, vl8fi8; 'afntcdated November 14, 1868.

To all twho-m 'it may concern:

- Be it known that I, BARTON H. J Enns, of Bridesburg, in the county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Reeling-Machinery; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of a machine for winding silk and other threads into skeins, having my improvement applied to it. v V

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the machine.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section through the machine, taken in the vertical plane indicated by red line z a: in iig. 2, showing the reel-arms in position for the removal of the hanks or skeins from it.

Figure 4 is an end view of the device by which the hafkbs or` skeins are removed from the reel and its sh Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several gures.

This invention relates to an improvementon reelingmachinery, which is designed for winding into skeins silkand other threads requiring to be so treated.

To enable others skilled inthe art to-understand my inventien, I will describe its construction and operation.

Iuthe accompanying drawings,

A represents the frame of a reeling-machine, which may be made in any suitable manner, and of any required capacity.

B represents a macerating or sizing-box, through which the yarn is carried on its way from bobbins, which are applied, upon studs a a, to the reel.

The yarn passes from the box B through eyes b, upon an intermittent longitudinally-reciprocating bar O, which eyes serve as guides for distributing the yan1 evenly upon the reel in hanks or skeins.

The following mechanism may be employed for moving the bar' G during the operationof reeling:

Upon the lower edge of s aid bar C is a slotted rackplate, c, o'n the ioppositc horizontal edges of the slot of which saw-shaped teeth are formed, which pitch, as

shown, and are acted upon by an arresting and releasing-dog7 d, which is upon the extremity of one arm of a rectangular lever, D. This lever is applied to a stud, e, which projects laterally from a standard, e', of the xed bearing j' of -the recl-shaftE, and itis acted upon at proper tim'es by pins upon the vertical face of a wheel, F.- This Wheel is supported by an arm projecting lat` erally from the end of frame A, beneath the reel-shaft,

and it receives a slow motion from a worm-wheel, F, upon this reel-shaft. A Weight, W, is attached to a rope, W', which latter is'attached to the bar C, and carlied over a pulley, f', upon the longitudinal arm of the lever D. This Weight W willl movethe bar C a distance equal to the length of one of the fteethin the rack-plate c at every movement of the lever D.

The reel may be constructed in any well-known manner, and applied to its shaft E, so that its parallel bars G, with the arms carrying these bars, can be folded, as shown in g. 3, for the purpose of readily removing the hanks from it.

One end of the reel-shaft E is supported in a xed bearing, j, on each side of which a collar, g, is fixed to said shaft for the purpose of preventing end-play thereof. The opposite end of the reel-shaft E passes through the hub 7L of a circular-flanged bearing, J, which is supported in a semicircular recess formed in the upper part of one side of the main frame A, and kept in its place by means of the flanges i i, which form a groove for receiving the' upper edge of the circular seat of fralne A.

This circular bea-ring J is constructed with hooked .projections p p on its iianges, shown in fig. 4, which hooks are diametrically opposite each other, and are designed to serve, in conjunction with studs s, which are below the shaft E, and in a vertical plane intersecting the axis thereof, as stops for checking the bearing J at the desired points for the removal of the skeins from the reel.

The circular bearing J is constructed with an opening or break, P, in its rim, by exposing which above the top` edge of the frame A, and introducing the hanks through it so as to bring the yarn Within the circumference of the said bearing, the hanks can be readily taken off the ends ofthe reel-shaft by giving the bearing a half turn, so as to expose the opening P above the top edge ofthe frame A, on the opposite'side ofthe axis of shaft E 'to that upon which the yarn was introduced through said opening P.

By means of this circular movable bearing, the yarncan be carried beneath the ends of the reel-shaft and thrown on, without lifting said shaft, or changing its axial line. It will be as firmly and positively supported during this operation of taking oif, as it is during the operation of reeling.

Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

` l. The combination of the folding reel-bars G G, shaft E, circular healing J, with a break, P, in its rim, and groove or ianges i t, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

2. The bearing J P, p p, constructed in the manner shown and described, in combination with the groove or flanges i and pin s, for the purpose set forth.

3. The arrangement, consisting of the oscillating be'aring J P, reel E G, groove or flanges vfi, i, intermittent longitudinally-reciprocating bar C, sizing-box B, and gearing, shown, for operating the bar and reel, all substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

BARTON H., JENKS. Witnesses:

WLLLIAM Donson,l J AMES HUGHES. p 

